whet your appetite
to excite or stimulate
TRANSLATION
whet your appetite = anregen, stimulieren --- GOOGLE INDEX whet your appetite: approximately 5,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
There are dozens of other Holy wells in the county - this tour is just to WHET YOUR APPETITE.
(BBC People & Places)
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To WHET YOUR APPETITE we've put together our tailored guide to your first iPhone-5S-powered trip to the App Store, bringing you the best apps that will keep you gazing lovingly at your new toy when you feverishly rip it from the box.
(TechRadar technology portal)
(BBC People & Places)
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To WHET YOUR APPETITE we've put together our tailored guide to your first iPhone-5S-powered trip to the App Store, bringing you the best apps that will keep you gazing lovingly at your new toy when you feverishly rip it from the box.
(TechRadar technology portal)
Did you
know?
whet your appetite
idiom
- to increase the feeling that you want to have or to do a particular thing
(MacMillan Dictionaries)
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Wet and whet are homonyms, which are words that are pronounced the same or similar but have different meanings. Homonyms are natural candidates for misuse and that’s why the expression "whet your appetite" is often mistakenly written as "wet your appetite."
To clear up the confusion, wet is an adjective meaning covered or soaked in liquid, as well as a verb meaning to make wet. Whet is an Old English verb that means to sharpen or to stimulate, but in modern usage it’s confined almost exclusively to the phrase whet (one’s) appetite.
Below is small sample of other commonly misused homonyms:
- accept/except = accept means to agree while except means apart from (I accept his proposal/The proposal his fine except for the last section)
- compliment/complement = compliment means praise while complement means to enhance something (I complimented her on an excellent presentation/The wine complemented the dinner beautifully)
- emigrate/immigrate = emigrate is to leave a country and immigrate is to enter a country (He emigrated to the UK in the 1970s/My forefathers immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in the 18th century)
- eminent/imminent = eminent means highly regarded while imminent means about to occur (She is an eminent professor at the university/The storm is imminent)
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SYNONYMS
excite, stimulate, awaken, sharpen, spur, incite, rouse, stir, thrill, kindle, provoke
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Just to whet your appetite, here is a picture of the hotel we will be staying at."
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Thanks to Chris for suggesting today's word!
idiom
- to increase the feeling that you want to have or to do a particular thing
(MacMillan Dictionaries)
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Wet and whet are homonyms, which are words that are pronounced the same or similar but have different meanings. Homonyms are natural candidates for misuse and that’s why the expression "whet your appetite" is often mistakenly written as "wet your appetite."
To clear up the confusion, wet is an adjective meaning covered or soaked in liquid, as well as a verb meaning to make wet. Whet is an Old English verb that means to sharpen or to stimulate, but in modern usage it’s confined almost exclusively to the phrase whet (one’s) appetite.
Below is small sample of other commonly misused homonyms:
- accept/except = accept means to agree while except means apart from (I accept his proposal/The proposal his fine except for the last section)
- compliment/complement = compliment means praise while complement means to enhance something (I complimented her on an excellent presentation/The wine complemented the dinner beautifully)
- emigrate/immigrate = emigrate is to leave a country and immigrate is to enter a country (He emigrated to the UK in the 1970s/My forefathers immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in the 18th century)
- eminent/imminent = eminent means highly regarded while imminent means about to occur (She is an eminent professor at the university/The storm is imminent)
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SYNONYMS
excite, stimulate, awaken, sharpen, spur, incite, rouse, stir, thrill, kindle, provoke
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Just to whet your appetite, here is a picture of the hotel we will be staying at."
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Thanks to Chris for suggesting today's word!
